HOME Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told Parliament on Tuesday that his department has had to reprioritise R562 million from its budget as part of the Covid-19 pandemic.
"If we had taken a 17% cut of all operational units, we would have a big impact on operations as well as annual performance plans and the strategic plan," he said.This included not procuring uniforms and having cuts in travel and subsistence, among others. Chief Financial Officer Gordon Hollamby said the department looked at the targeted budget items where there were no contractual commitments, no new staff appointments were made, where service delivery was least to be affected and delay payments for property.
Hollamby said the implementation of the passenger name recognition project could be delayed to 2020/21 along with the improvements of the ports of entry infrastructure.
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